Taryn & Jabari | Metropolitan Room | Newark, NJ
Jabari and I were good friends for over a year while I was living in Hoboken and working as a teacher and he was living in New Hampshire…
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Gila & Ari | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Ari and I saw each other on a dating app. We met the next day at a wine bar on the Upper West Side. It was while sipping our first glass of wine that Ari mentioned he was a rabbi living in the suburbs…
Heather & Jose | Faculty House at Columbia U. | New York, NY
Jose and I had been graduate students together at Columbia University for nearly two years…
Monet & Jamie | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
My family has owned and operated a flower shop in Huntington, NY for over 30 years. While I was in college, I worked for a flower shop …
Lisa & Joshua | Faculty House at Columbia University | NYC
Some would say fate brought us together, 7,000 miles away from home. Josh and I both grew up in the US and were relocated to Shanghai, China for work…
Yael & DJ | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
DJ and I were set up by good friends. We were both at their wedding but didn’t meet each other until our “blind date.”
Marta & Justin | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
Justin and I met through a mutual friend on Facebook. I saw his photos and thought he was very handsome, but maybe too young…
Kristy & Matthew | Above | Staten Island, NY
Matt and I met at Wagner College when he was a senior and I was a junior. We had several friends in common and then our friendship turned into more.
Johanna & Benjamin | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
We met while in college at Princeton. We bonded over the Yankees and were good friends for about four years before we started dating…
Ashley & Joe | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Joe and I met during college at Loyola University. We were friends for two years before we started dating…
Katelyn & Emilio | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
It all started when my father couldn’t drive and I would take him to the bank. One day he said, “There’s a really nice boy I’d like you to meet.”
Pamela & Andrew | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Our freshman year of college, Andrew and I were in the same dorm and on the same floor. We were friends at first…
Jason & Rachel | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Jason and I met in college, where we lived next door to each other in my freshman dorm. We started dating the following year…
Leila & Michael | Waterside Restaurant & Catering | North Bergen, NJ
I met Michael through mutual friends while I was visiting New York and …
Kara & Paul | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Paul and I met in Chicago when we both ended up working at the same public relations agency…
Emma & Chase | The Wagner at the Battery | New York, NY
Chase and I met during our junior year of college at a party, well really, at several parties. After only a few encounters…
Jennifer & Eli | Waterside Restaurant | North Bergen, NJ
Eli and I met on match.com. I work in fashion design and Eli is an electrical contractor…
Michelle & Paul | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
I noticed Paul at our high school orientation and thought he was cute. We had a lot of classes together and we quickly became friends…
Erica & Bryan | Above | Staten Island, NY
Bryan and I were set up on a blind date by my uncle Leo and Bryan’s brother Keith, who were friends…
Yael & Adam | Faculty House at Columbia U. | New York, NY
Adam and I met through the dating app OkCupid. I am a nurse and Adam is a software engineer…
Nicole & Scott | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Scott and I grew up not far from each other on Long Island. We met after graduating from college when we both moved back home…
Sarah & Mark | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
I have been best friends with Mark’s little sister, Jakelyn (Jaki), since seventh grade…
Jennifer & Eric | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
I met Eric in high school, but we were just acquaintances. The summer before my senior year of college, we ran into each other…
Karley & Joe | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Joey and I met the summer I moved to Queens from upstate NY. We were at a mutual friend’s party in Manhattan…
Katie & Anoop | Waterside Restaurant & Catering | North Bergen, NJ
Anoop and I met in the fourth grade! We started dating when we were freshman in high school…
Graziella & Dominick | Above | Staten Island, NY
I met Dominick when I was in eighth grade and he had just started high school. We were good friends for about two years, both secretly liking each other…
Natalie & Ravi | Hotel Eventi | New York, NY
Ravi & I met in high school during the fall of our senior year. Even though we were hanging out all the time, we were hesitant to start officially dating…
Jaclyn & Nadav | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
I met Nadav at his best friend Justin’s birthday party in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district …
Lianna & Joshua | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
Josh and I met when I was living in Vermont. He invited me over for a home-cooked meal, and after an amazing duck dinner we spent hours talking…
Dana & Brant | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
When Brant first discovered my online dating profile on OK Cupid, we were only 10 percent compatible. I was a little hesitant to accept a date until he increased his match score a bit. So he spent the entire next day answering compatibility questions, and when he reached 97 percent, he asked me out again…
Ilana & Alexander | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Ilana and I met as kids growing up in Miami, Florida. By the end of high school, we’d grown into close friends, and going off to college in separate states didn’t cause us to drift apart…
Daniela & Karol | Above | Staten Island, NY
Karol and I went to senior prom together and have been inseparable ever since…
Stephanie & Alex | Liberty House | Jersey City, NJ
Alex and I went to the same high school, but our paths did not cross until I was 23 years old…
Kaitlin & Paul | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
I’ve been friends with Paul’s sister, Allie, since I was eight years old and I’ve always had a crush on him growing up and …
Erica & Matthew | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
Once my sister Natalie and Matt’s brother Mike began planning their wedding, with me as maid of honor and Matt as best man, Matt and I realized how…
Nicole & Thomas | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
Tom and I knew each other but hadn’t seen each other in almost 18 years. Thanks to Tom’s persistence, our first date was at Thom Thom Steak and Seafood …
Jaclyn & Ibrahim | Waterside Restaurant & Catering | North Bergen, NJ
Abe and I met as freshman in high school. We were acquaintances with friends in common, but we left high school without ever getting to really know one another. Eight years after graduating, I saw Abe at a mutual friend’s birthday in New York City…
Heather & Matthew | Waterside Restaurant & Catering | North Bergen, NJ
Matt and I met on a dating site, which is surprising because I am usually a little hesitant about dating sites. We met for drinks and hit it off right away.
Katie & Jason | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Jason and I met at a mutual friend’s birthday party…
Jessica & Scott | The Wagner at the Battery | New York, NY
Scott and I met through mutual friends. We were given each other’s numbers, and after a week of texting, we scheduled our first date.
Elise & Benjamin | Faculty House at Columbia U. | New York, NY
We read the same article in the Wall Street Journal about online dating, which mentioned a specific new site…
Alyssa & Steve | Above | Staten Island, NY
Steve and I met in high school. Being just kids at the time, for our first date, he gave me the choice of McDonald’s or Wendy’s, and I chose …